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NOTES OF THE DAY WHAT'S WRONG WITH The Very Idea!
1.
GIRLS' SCHOOLS
By DR. CYRIL NORWOOD
(Headmaster of Harrow)
LETTERS TO A SELF MADE COLONIAL: Stolon & Censored by Eddis Kolly.
The frequency with which police searching squads delay buses near the Police Training School suggests an enquiry as to whether this is really necessary. If the men are engaged on serious duty, little complaint can bo It is very bold on the part of a the vlow that It is scarcely wlad to offered, but if, as it sometimes mere man to write about girle have so many girls competing suc-
SOME time ago we were appears, the object is morely to schools; for though I count cessfully with boys for jobs.
fortunate enough to give training to new rocrulta, n among my ancestors just as many I submit that it is becoming a acquire a series of letters method might be found which sex debara me from speaking either are responsible for education in this Colonial to his Girl Friend women as any schoolmistress my very pressing matter for those who written by a new-chum would cause less inconvenience. with wisdom or with knowledge. Buses are legally expected to run
country, and in particular for the There are excellent women who Board of Education, to seek to at Home. to a schedule and if the search is regard the girls' school as the ladies arrive at a considered view of what
THE EMPIRE FAIR
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The
Hongkong Telegraph enclosing the Exhibition in
THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1993.
a
of
Rome regarded the mysteries of ought to be taught to the ordinary
Fully aware of the dangers
educational rite in which no male education is going to atop short at corner, ever ready to pounce Bona Dea, and hold it to be an boy and the ordinary girl whone and evils that lurk around the Still, I had a mother: I havo daugh- view to guide us, our whole eduen-newcomer, we printed several should take part on pain of death. 16, or at intest, 18. Without that upon and ensnare the unwary ters: I am more or less a governor tional development will be a muddle of the letters as a warning to of several girls' schools: I have
For one of the commonest things
education
IGNORED REALITIES.
others.
nameless, has received a batch of Our Colonial, who shall remain replies from his Girl Friend, They were done ribbon when we found them and as ho's been on a bonder for the
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up with blue
to
efficiently carried out delays of minute and more occur. If the ly means, a duty too perfunctorily vehicles get away quickly, it more performed to be of any value. Botter practice, if it is practice, could be provided by making use prizegivings innumerable. I will be of Everygirl? Before we answer looked at the cutaldo of them at What, then, is to be the education of a bus not employed on passon- bold; and say what I think,
that, we ought surely to ask: ger services, putting recruit con- There are not Jacking women of What is Everygirl going to be stables on board with concealed courage and foresight in the There are only two things that I weapons, and setting another schools, and the retiring president know about her future. The first batch the task of finding them.
of the Headmistresses' Association is that she is certainly going to ba the other day was fearless in her a citizen and to exercise A Vote. past week, he won't miss the one castigation of the thoughts and The other Is that she is probably we've borrowed, manners of the present day. Igoing to get married, to make a want to see that courage and that home, and to bring up children. A
London, June 22, foresight devoted to the adjustment visitor from another sphere, con- 'Pete, darling:
Your last letter terrified me. I feel The replies to Mr. M. F. Key's of the girls' schools to the real templating our schools, might per. Empire Fair questionnaire are bothoods of the pupils that throng haps form the impression that our sure, sweetheart, that you are run
them, for I am sure that a wider girls are so happily constituted by ning into danger in that
terriblo encouraging and helpful and show outlook is needed, and not in the nature that they can take all these Hongkong. Whatever you do, Pete, that the inquiry was well worth education of girls only. Much of activities unseen and unprepared. my pet, look after yourself, and slay away from those awful cabarete. I've while. The desire expressed that, what I say will be true of boys, They do so take them, many of
them, and the results might be bet- Hongkong papers you sent me are ful! seen them in the talkies, and the in future fairs, steps should be only more so.
ter. EXAM. HANDICAP. taken to regulate the attendance
of the terrible doings and carrying Let us assume that the above is
Darling, I don't want you will be generally endorsed. Apart which you hear said by thoughtful a fair statement of the destiny of become one of those gigolos, from this, little criticism is forth-headmistresses at the present time is a preparation for life, and not over, dear, and that you don't have Everygirl, and that a school course I am so glad that the drought is coming. The consensus of opinion is that there are large numbers of for an examination; what ought to go thirsty any longer. I think among those obviously in the best girls to whom they cannot give the her education to be? In the first the Hongkong government was
the right education, position to judge is that a distinct best for them, because of the place, it should aim at the produc absolutely callous and unmoral value attaches to the holding of an examination system, the demands tion of health, strength, and activi- the way they minde everybody put annual Fair; most, exhibitors are of matriculation, and the bonds of Girls' schools are already, I think, could get a drink. You didn't ty to the highest degree possible, their names on chits before they in favour of confining it to Empire tradition in which education is tied in front of boys' schools in this explain what a shit was, dear, so commodities; the desirability of Only they never seem to say, respect, but it is not in every school I looked it up in the dictionary, ofther collectively or individually, course as fundamental as it ought which says a chit is a girl or a a what the right education Is.
to be. single area is stressed; and most
Now, I
woman who is regarded as little. am all for making firms agree that to expect the examinations our servants and not built on English subjects as ita
Next, the curriculum should be more than a child. organisation to be carried
Were they Chinese girls, Pete? out our masters: I am all for putting main foundation; the mother I felt just a teeny weeney bit entirely by willing volunteers is compound, where it ought to be, use it; geography, dealt with in all the chits you had got. I hope, matriculation into the university tongue, how to speak it, write it, jealous when you told me about asking rather too much. In short, and locking the gate on it. But the modern way, which gives rea- dear, that you are boing good. some very sound suggestions are do want to know more clearly what sons as well facts; and history advanced regarding future ar-
we are going to put in its place, which moves on from the stories shortage is over you don't have I suppose now that the water rangements. It says much for the and nobody talks about that...
of the past to concentrate on the to go out to that terriblo Peninsula If there is any man who can way in which the Fair has been
world of the present, how and why to assuage your thirst. I had a rescue China from her financial run during the last two years that sions,
It is human to have preposses-it has grown to be what it is. On look at the map of Hongkong the and headmistresses are this foundation should he built other day, but there was morass it should be Sir Arthur an opportunity to "any a Tew human. When the great movement lessons in simple citizenship. Salter. Her people and friends words" found commentators con-of high school education began, the
Peninsula marked on it. Third, science, so long as it is will, therefore, welcome the tent to make constructive
pro- boys' schools were dominated by a alive. Science entered the eure must be a nice man. It was 80 I'm sure your friend, Mr. Kelly, narrow curriculum leading logicallyriculum about 1870, and by 1900 kind of him to look after you news that he has accepted an in-posnis.
to the university and nowhere else. the pedants had made it tho when you first arrived in Hong- vitation to act as adviser to the
The pioneer women in the teaching deadost subject of the lot. Let kong, and, when I come Nanking Government. Sir Ar-
profession took over the ayatem Everygirl try to learn something thur's profound experience of
entire, for their primary concern of biology and bygiene, with join you, dear, I want to meet was not to devise the best education merest elements of physics and him. He is a brave man to face world economic and financial
for women but to demonstrate their chemistry; it is not her business those shroffs the way he does, problems, and. his
France seems likely to draw a intellectual equality with previous
mon.to be potential B.Sc.
Does he have any chits, dear? I knowledge of China's complex by laying formal claim to those
small hornet's nest about her ears They were probably right in so do- Finally, let her do her best at the think, from the way you write,
ing. finances, should prove of inesti- islands in the China Ses, although bridges since that date, and what to the home; teach her to a right type.
asthetic and practical subjects. that he is much too nice to bother. But much water has flowed under will be her concern to give beauty about women, especially the chit mable value to-day when the the most astonishing thing about the women then set out to show has judgment of things musical and usual budgetary difficulties are the business is that there should be been abundantly proved, ao far as it artistic. It will be her concern to. to get home comforts out in the Darling, I know how hard it is accentuated by the loss-of-re-any-islands with their onwership in which some women will not be have her chance of learning some-I have knitted you a sweater, two can be proved.There is no subject givo order to the home: lethor Far East, so, in case you feel cold, venue from Manchuria and unsettled. We thought that all as good as the best men at the thing of the many heavy military expenditure. Sir the land-grabbing that could postage of school or university work, housecraft.
mysteries of pairs of woollen socks, and a pair of woollen gloves, which I want Arthur is generally recognised sibly be done was efficiently per- But, this having been demonstrated But, it will be said, you have left you to wear whenever you venture as one of the finest financial formed many years ago. The srd- is it not time to turn to what ought out of the training of Everygiri out of your hut. Always wear brains in the world and his poli- Philippines and China is amusing are fitted to do what boys ought to confessed. If she likes French, let those typhoons. I have wrapped den interest taken by Japan, the to be the real objective, and not modern languages and mathematics, flannel next to the skin, dear, and send out quite so many girls who So I have, and I stand a heretle keep your throat muted up against tical wisdom is in no way infer- in a way. If the Japanese reporta | do, and do it very well, but who are her learn it; if she has no linguistic the woolien things around a bottle for to his technical ability. In regarding the number of times by no means particularly fitted to gift, let her leave it out. If she is of lime-juice, which is good for the the latter field, if technical since 1918 that the Tokyo Govern- do what girls ought to do? ability means a combination of the creative mind with the exe- cutive hand, there are not a dozen men in Europe to equal him. His remarkable book on "Recovery" reveals the trend of his thought on present-day HYDRONALIUM economic problems and if he is able to persuade Nanking to
SIR ARTHUR SALTER
THOSE ISLANDS
ment have been asked to make a formal claim are accurate, some- one must be heartily kicking him- self to-day.
Germany, which did so much to
work out his programme, on a give aluminum its place in the smaller scale, naturally, that the modern world, has now prepared conception of his book, it might a new lightweight metal which serve the purpose not only of re-
has all the advantages and none of habilitating China's finances but the defects of aluminum. It is also of setting an example to called hydronalium and has been countries in
a similar plight. Prepared at the works of the I. G. That he is well fitted to be on- Farbenindustrie, Germany'a fa- trusted with such an experiment mous dyo trust. Though light in is beyond doubt, He was re-weight and strong, aluminum and sponsible for the bulk of the its alolys "corrode" under certain burdensome work which resulted weather conditions. They are par- in the financial reconstruction of ticularly affected by sea water, Austria and Hungary, under white rain and certain forms of League auspices, after the war dampneas, also cause damago. A He is an example of the British civil servant at his best but with
areauit,, they must be continually an outlook widened by a natural recoated with special paints to largeness of vision as well as by prevent serious damage to the experience garnered in the whole construction. None of theso last fourteen years at Paris and disadvantages are present in hy- Genova, where he has done more dronalium, it is claimed. It is an perhaps than anyone else living alloy of aluminum, magnesium, to set a standard of what the and, a vory smail part of manga- "ideal international man" should nese.. It differs from other alloys bc. His reputation is such that in that it does not need to bo mon trained by him at Geneva worked in heat. Under cortain are always being plundered. Quesney went to the Bank of conditione it may be welded, France and Jacobgen to the Na- though, up to the present, the dif- tional Economic Council in ferent parts of any construc. Sweden. If he only succeeds in tion of hydronalium have bean tooping a few of China's finan- riveted together, Manufactured Solar Tenders with the "Salter, tras in various degrees of hardness, it dition" ble work in China will can be transported in plates of two be more than worth wallo. millimeter thickness and upward.
the
TRUE OBJECTIVE.
no.
out to
get some
good at algebra and geometry (and blood. Whenever you nowadays about juvenile unemploy- but so long as she can do a little government, put a little lime-fulce Moreover, we hear a good deal she probably isn't), let her try: water from that mean Hongkong ment; and perhaps without sharing arithmetic accurately, what Hitler's determination to confine does she want?
more in it. women once again to the provinces: of children, cooking, and church, and looking at the needs of life, Can anyone, forgetting tradition ono may be justified in hazarding give a satisfying answer?
don't"
let's not stand here and argue. Do I get a kiss or
I hope the Pando doesn't pilfer across the desert with it. How the parcel when he's trekking
ofton does he call, at your village with mall? ..
Darling, this is sill I can write now. Give Mr. Kelly my address ao that he can write to me if anything ever happens you. Ever your-
AN APOLOGY
We admit now that our action Was totally undignified. Wo should not have thrown that bot Ho at him. At least, not before It was empty.
But a man is inclined to lose his temper In this climate, and in moments of passion; does things that he's sorry for afterwards.. We hope Poto will accept this apology In the spirit with which it le given. It was our last bottle' of beer, too,
But there you are. In Hong- kong humidity and humility don't mix. There's an "" of a differ enco between them, Besiden, Pate needn't have been so nasty about that ten bucks we've owed him. Wo owe lots of better mon than he is, more than we wore. over able to squeeze out of him. Still, we're sorry. Hongkong people have a lot to put up with.. What with summer, the cabaret ovil, shrofts, chits, people who write bilthering letters to tho papera, all this mystery about the date of the opening of the Hong kong Browery, and a thousand and one other pin-pricks, life some- times isn't worth living.
When we threw that bottle at Pete, he took us too seriously! Only shroffs ahould take us Bor lously in Hongkong
We're sorry about that beer.